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At noon today,#Lin Zhiying and his son's car accident rushed to the top of Weibo's hot search, becoming the focus of attention on the whole network.

According to Taiwan media reports, at about 10:50 a.m. today, artist Lin Zhiying had a car accident on Zhongzheng North Road in Taoyuan. According to reports, Lin Zhiying went out with his son, driving a white Tesla Model X into the bridge locomotive separation island, knocking the pole askew, while the Model X front had been severely deformed and violently burned, bursts of black smoke were emitted from the scene, and the airbag had popped open. According to the local fire department, when firefighters arrived, the fire was quite fierce, thick black smoke rose from the scene, the fire was extinguished after emergency extinguishing, but Tesla's head had been burned to the skeleton, and when ready to put out the Model X on the trailer, Tesla caught fire again, firefighters had to keep watering to cool down.

According to the exposed video, the front position of the vehicle is surrounded by fire, and the vehicle after extinguishing the fire has been burned to the front only frame. According to the rescuers on the scene to the media revealed, At that time they 5, 6 workers immediately rushed to rescue, A group of people to take fire extinguishers, A group of people and passers-by cooperation, Lin Zhiying was seriously injured and was stuck in the car, Rescue to half, Lin Zhiying is still stuck in the car, The front fire is difficult to put out burning, They opened four doors to try their best, Finally Lin Zhiying pulled out, Almost even people with the car was burned.

When she was dragged out, Lin Zhiying's face was full of blood and she was in a semi-coma state. Her right hand was suspected to be dislocated or fractured. She has been sent to hospital for treatment. His child was frightened and escaped by himself. He got out of the passenger seat consciously and was not injured. After the accident, Lin Zhiying's family also responded to the accident, Lin Zhiying is currently in Linkou Changgeng Hospital, should be fine.

According to surveillance video exposed by Taiwan media, Lin Zhiying drove Tesla slowly at the intersection and then continued to drive forward all the way. Unexpectedly, for some reason, he suddenly deviated from the lane and crashed into the motorbike separation island at the intersection ahead. The whole car then fell into flames. According to Taiwan's "Central News Agency","China News Network","Zhongtian Fast TV" and other media reports, Taiwan Taoyuan Police Bureau Luzhu Branch responded to the artist Lin Zhiying driving Tesla accident, saying that Lin Zhiying did not pay attention to the situation in front of the car, only collided with the motorcycle separation island, his head, face were slightly injured, has been sent to the hospital for treatment, no life-threatening. Police conducted a breath alcohol concentration test on Lin Zhiying, whose alcohol test value was 0, and there was no drunk driving behavior. In response to the accident, Tesla responded that the cause of the fire could not be confirmed for the time being, and there were no flammable materials near Tesla's driver's seat.

According to relevant information, Lin Zhiying founded Jimmy Studio in 1996, bought his first Ferrari sports car with the money he earned, and used it as his chariot for the first time to race and win the third place trophy. In August 2000, he won the first championship of his racing career at Zhuhai Circuit and began to enter the field of formula racing. He won two consecutive Renault spider championships and obtained the qualification for formula racing. After strict training in FRD racing, he officially participated in the Formula Renault International Championship in China and became Taiwan's first international formula driver. According to incomplete statistics, Lin Zhiying owns a variety of high-end sports cars including Porsche 996, Hummer H3, Ferrari F430, Ferrari 575M, Lamborghini GALLARDO, Audi TT, Porsche GAYENNE, etc., which are expensive.

Lin Zhiying, who had played all over sports cars, began to experience the fun brought by electric cars. It is understood that Lin Zhiying became a Tesla owner in 2020, spending NT $2.2 million on a Model 3 and then NT $3.5 million on a Model X, of which the Model 3 was modified by him and went on the track, breaking his previous record of 1 minute 56 seconds in 1 minute 55.4 seconds. In addition to Model 3 and Model X, Lin Zhiying ordered the new Model X and electric pickup Cybertruck, but due to chip shortage and capacity impact, Cybertruck has not been delivered in mass production.

Earlier, Lin Zhiying said in an interview: "I have been racing against time all my life, constantly catching up, even if it is 0.01 seconds of progress." At the beginning of driving Model 3, it was only used for transportation, but because the chassis of this car was low and the center of gravity was at the foot, it drove like a go-kart, and the speed was not lost when crossing corners on the track.

It can be said that Lin Zhiying is also a loyal Tesla iron powder, but it has also revealed Tesla's problems. In February 2021, Tesla navigation system was circulated on the Internet to crash when it heard the seven words "Kaiyuan Road Fish Soup." Lin Zhiying released a test video at the request of netizens. The video shows that Lin Zhiying first shouted "Take me to McDonald's" to the navigation system, the navigation system will mark the location of nearby McDonald's, but when Lin Zhiying said "Take me to Kaiyuan Road fish soup," the system really black screen crash.

In response to this accident, some netizens commented that "Tesla ordinary driver improper operation, Lin Zhiying is a professional racing driver, he also improper operation","watching video car is not fast ah, why suddenly turn crash?", "It turns out that even the best racing drivers can't control Tesla."

On the afternoon of July 22, Jimmy Studio issued a statement explaining several points of concern to the outside world. It said that on the morning of July 22, Lin Zhiying's car crashed into the separation island and caught fire due to unknown reasons. He was immediately rescued by enthusiastic passers-by and sent to Linkou Chang Gung Hospital. At present, Lin Zhiying and his son are undergoing emergency medical treatment in Chang Gung Hospital. Mr. Lin Zhiying has many injuries and fractures. At present, the Chang Gung medical team is conducting surgical evaluation. The condition cannot be explained in detail for the time being, but it is relatively stable at present. Many thanks to the public and fans for their concern and the Changgeng medical team for their assistance. Finally, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to the kind people who rescued Mr. Lin Zhiying and his son from the car. On behalf of Lin Zhiying's family and company, I would like to express my gratitude.

For the slow speed crash situation, some industry insiders pointed out: Because hit is a static object, Tesla was driving at a speed of 3,40 km/h, at this speed hit a static object, the consequences are very serious, after all, the speed of domestic car crash test, is only 60km/h. In addition, it also pointed out that from the accident process to see the high probability is distracted, and look at the injury seems not to wear a seat belt. Of course, the specific situation is still subject to official announcement, and we will continue to pay attention to the latest progress of the accident.

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